Mikhail Gorbachev: Interview with a Ukrainian journalist on December 7, 1991

December 7, 1991, Moscow. A fragment of an interview by Ukrainian journalist Zynoviy Kulyk with the first and only president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

The video includes a part of the conversation about the need to form a new union of countries, the enmity between peoples, the situation with the Baltic states, why Gorbachev cannot imagine the existence of the USSR without Ukraine, assurances that everyone in the West wants to preserve the Soviet Union, and his attitude to the results of the referendum on Ukraine's independence held on December 1, 1991. Gorbachev also talks about his Ukrainian roots.

NOTES: This interview lasted 105 minutes in total. It was Mikhail Gorbachev's longest interview. On this very day, December 7, 1991, representatives of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus gathered at the government dacha in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. There, Leonid Kravchuk, Boris Yeltsin, and Stanislav Shushkevich began negotiations on the termination of the USSR.